#it's a sad song but we sing it anyway

[i-lavabean]

See someone's got to tell the tale, whether or not it turns out well

Maybe it will turn out this time

[shoutsindwarvish]

i mean it'll be worth it but oof

[timetravelbypen]

The urge to make one of those “photos and quotes/lyrics” posts mixing up Doctor Who and Hadestown, in spite of the fact that I have no photo editing skills whatsoever, is STRONG.

[matrose]

the sheer scale of khazad-dûm's existance is so unimaginable…! it existed longer than any elven realm in middle-earth (from what i know), it is older than the hobbits as a whole, it saw númenor rise and then sink back into the ocean. khazad-dûm was built by the literal first dwarf that awoke, it is older than the sun and moon. it encompasses nearly all of their existance. and it was brutally taken from them!! of course they want it back!!

[bookishblogging]

Oh it was sad but the love was there!! You felt it nonetheless! Doesn’t it make the sadness worth it to know you’ve felt such bliss, and to know you will feel this over and over again- that everyone will feel this, everyone has felt this since the dawn of time and will continue to until the sun explodes and somehow we survive and are better for it. Somehow the love exists even after it’s gone, the traces of it are imbued in your bloodstream, it’s horrific and barbaric and BEAUTIFUL! Let it be beautiful when you can, and when you can’t remember that we sing the song anyways and the song will be sung again. There’s a beauty in that if you let yourself grasp it.

[lilydvoratrelundar]

I think Church on Ruby Road has finally firmly cemented my opinion that Murray Gold should not have come back.

[a-song-in-the-stillness]

pushing the limits of my self-control by listening to road to hell (reprise) right before I have to go into a meeting

[twelverriver]

au: buffy and faith are in a pop rock band called The Slayers. buffy is the lead singer, faith plays the bass and does backing vocals. faith keeps fucking every single person in their band and their crew and buffy isn’t jealous. when they Do they together they’re absolutely obnoxious and faith keeps spilling things about their private life on stage with a smirk and a wink and buffy is really embarrassed but also thinks faith’s super hot while she’s doing it, so she doesn’t mind that much. 

[funblogoftricks]

A love song for anyone who tries

So there's a lot of posts about Zerxus being a damn fool, and that's fine. Some are mournful, some incredulous, and some don't blame him.

I've also seen a post or two about Zerxus being more clear-eyed than he seems, being clever with his words, negotiating for himself and his son, maaaybe his city, as selfish and ambitious as the wizards around him - and that's also fine.

But I wonder if there's something in between the naivete and the cynicism. Remember that Zerxus is the one with the visions; he has seen the end. He's the one who feels it coming. He's the one who knows what it feels like to stand in the palm of a god, to feel small and useless in the face of certain doom. Zerxus, paladin of the people, First Knight of Avelir. Useless.

What does a good man do in the face of unavoidable, terrible fate?

I think maybe, he just tries.

"I know you took your pain out on us. Don't you forget the kindness we're capable of. We're your children too."

That doesn't sound to me like a total lack of understanding of what Asmodeus is, but it doesn't sound like an arrogant attempt at manipulation, either. It sounds like a desperate plea. What else would you say to a god, if you had once chance to speak to one, before they tried to wipe your people off the world? What words could you justify, knowing one day you would answer for them? That you would have to explain them to your husband, or your son, in the afterlife?

What could you do but try?

The best weapons Zerxus carries are his compassion and his conviction. He is a paladin. A fighter. He will not lay down his arms in the final hour. He cannot. Hopeless though it may seem, he's giving it everything he has, the greatest strength he can muster.

Let it not be said that Zerxus Ilerez didn't try his damndest.

What else is there to do?

[raayllum]

head in my hands listening to “all i’ve ever known,” “flowers,” “wait for me,” “come home with me (reprise),” “doubt comes in,” and “road to hell ii” from the hadestown soundtrack

[asteriasfallingstarsandtears]

I think I like Hadestown AUs for FF14, especially if they take place in G'raha's timeline, because it gives the Warrior a chance to be saved rather than to be the one to save everyone. Sure, you could write it as the Warrior in the role of Orpheus, there's lots of dead characters that the Warrior could save, but I like the idea of G'raha attempting to save the Warrior of Light in his world.

Because he wants to save that world too. That world might be bereft of hope at first, but if he found out the Warrior somehow survived but was held by the Ascians? He could be the hero he always dreamed about, he could make the reopening of the Crystal Tower an event of Hope and Future in that world, something for the survivors of the Calamity to rally behind.

We're going to save the Warrior of Light who saved our world so many times.

And then, because it really only can end in tragedy, G'raha will fail in that world. He will doubt himself, that he is unworthy of being the hero this world needs, that he is unworthy of standing beside the Warrior of Light, let alone leading them to safety and a new life. G'raha has a lot of self doubt within him. He will doubt he has any right to change the world or save it.

And he will turn, fearing that the Warrior is no longer there. That he failed or was tricked or incapable.

And he will prove himself right. He will become the self fulfilling prophecy

It is because he doubts that the Warrior of Light is lost in that world.

That that world's hope is lost.

He failed to save his Warrior of Light, but there is another chance. If he is willing to stick to his convictions, if he is willing to exchange his own life with theirs, if he can keep moving forward without looking back.

He can give another G'raha and Warrior of Light a chance to live, and he will die, happily, knowing he has made amends and that the future he witnessed won't come to pass. He can carry the burden and expectations of a world lost to darkness and hopelessness.

He can die with that knowledge that he has made things right.

He never expects the people of the First to want him to lead them. In his mind, he's unworthy. So he refuses, he leaves, he wanders, emulating the Warrior in many ways.

And he does save them. He changes the story. He rewrites the tragedy of his own world.

[theatremp3]

if you quote hadestown in the tags of timeloop posts i love you. but also i hate you. but also we might be soulmates do you want to get trapped in a timeloop together

[startgamc]

@sadamenai continued from here

"I texted you three days ago about plans you already agreed to and you never responded!!!" She hissed back at him. No more delaying. She's dragging him back to Iwatodai dorms before he can bother to come up with some kind of excuse for why he can't go this time.

[gibbearish]

am finally back home and can say without a doubt that i am just fundamentally not built for long distance travel however the train was much nicer than planes

[krzdragon]

Portgas D. Ace is my Eurydice

[tuff-the-dwarf]

Tragedy kind of fic where every time the character dies the story repiets itself but characters are in a different setting. With every chapter they slowly realize that their love is doomed, and yet they still love each other in that short time that they have